Children's Fiction Adolescence
Too Late
- Publisher
- Annick Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2010
- Category
- Adolescence
- Recommended Age
- 15 to 18
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554513321
- Publish Date
- Aug 2010
- List Price
- $3.99
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Description
In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don’t want him back. It’s too late to be good, they say. Greg comes to the crippling realization of what he has become: the father he has both hated and feared.
About the author
Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, including Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, winner of the Calgary Book Award, and his most recent anthology of plays, Martini with a Twist. He has served on the boards of numerous writing organizations including the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright and The Greek Playwright, are used in universities and colleges across the country. He is currently a professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.
Awards
- Long-listed, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers List
Editorial Reviews
“… a great choice for mature readers who are looking for something different to sink their teeth into.”
CM Magazine, 10/10
